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Swittons, a P360 company, announced that its complete lineup of customizable IoT powered devices now includes integration with Microsoft Teams. "By integrating with Microsoft Teams, our complete lineup of Swittons devices are now able to facilitate remote communication that includes voice, video and online collaboration at the push of a button," stated Swittons CEO and Founder Anupam Nandwana.

Organizations are reporting a strong relationship between security and engineering, with more than three-quarters of respondents to a new report highlighting a transition from DevOps to DevSecOps, according to the pentest as a service platform provider Cobalt.io. "As web applications become more complicated and scanners improve efficiency, this report reveals a widespread need for applying security fundamentals to complex problems," said Vanessa Sauter, security strategy analyst at Cobalt.io, in a statement.

An overwhelming majority of organizations prioritize software quality over speed, yet still experience customer-impacting issues regularly, according to OverOps. The report, based on a survey of over 600 software development and delivery professionals, revealed that the current level of DevOps investment is not sufficient for ensuring software reliability.

Lumu, the creators of Continuous Compromise Assessment cybersecurity model that empowers organizations to measure compromise in real-time, announced a new Compromise Context capability that offers robust contextual intelligence around confirmed compromise instances, enabling security teams to deploy accelerated incident response efforts with precision. "Security teams have long relied on conventional Indicators of Compromise as their primary vehicle to detect a network intrusion or other malicious activities. However, as the word 'indicator' implies, it's an inexact science at best that often leaves you with more questions than answers," said Ricardo Villadiego, founder and CEO of Lumu.

The newly introduced Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop, in addition to notable enhancements to Chef's application delivery capabilities, help organizations enforce and maintain compliance; deploy, manage, and secure desktop, laptop and kiosk workstation fleets and accelerate application definition and delivery. "Enterprises today are striving to do more with less through automation, unifying formerly mission-specific teams to create more efficient IT environments where concrete business outcomes are prioritized over adherence to role-driven processes," said Jim Mercer, research director, DevOps, IDC. "Chef's product portfolio is positioned to help enterprises achieve an everything-as-code ethos and empower teams to cut across silos, with better visibility into and control over secure infrastructure and application definition and delivery."

Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, announced that its DocStar product line has released the newest version of the DocStar Enterprise Content Management solution. The 20.1 release of DocStar ECM introduces an upgraded user interface, enabling teams to work smarter from any location.

With 60 percent of survey respondents saying Agile has helped increase speed to market, 41 percent agreeing they are better able to manage distributed teams, and 58 percent saying they have improved team productivity it is clear these practices are invaluable during these challenging times. 55 percent say their company plans to increase the use of Agile in the next 12-14 months.

The number of vulnerabilities disclosed in Q1 2020 has decreased by 19.8% compared to Q1 2019, making this likely the only true dip observed within the last 10 years, Risk Based Security reveals. "Although the pandemic has already brought unprecedented changes to all walks of life, it is difficult to predict precisely how it will impact vulnerability disclosures this year," commented Brian Martin, Vice President of Vulnerability Intelligence at Risk Based Security.

The C-suite is the most likely group within an organization to ask for relaxed mobile security protocols - despite also being highly targeted by malicious cyberattacks, according to MobileIron. The study combined research from 300 enterprise IT decision makers across Benelux, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S., as well as 50 C-level executives from both the U.K. and the U.S. The study revealed that C-level executives feel frustrated by mobile security protocols and often request to bypass them.

PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, announced new automation and intelligence capabilities in its Dynamic Service Directory, Business Response and Intelligent Triage solutions, to help teams reduce manual work, prevent outages and improve remote collaboration. Sunil Madan, Corporate CIO at Zoom Video Communications, explains how his company is using PagerDuty, to meet soaring customer demand: "PagerDuty has played an instrumental role in keeping us 'always on' - it not only alerts us in real-time about any potential incidents, it provides the context our teams need to prioritize and solve problems, and it automates the process of bringing together only the right people. This has made our teams so efficient and effective that we've actually improved our time to resolve incidents."